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Carl Bernstein: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials
CNN ^ | 06/29/2020 | Carl Bernstein

Posted on 06/29/2020 6:00:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.

The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.

These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin, take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; carlbernstein; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; foreignaffairs; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; putin; russia; smearmachine; trump
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To: Gahanna Bob

Screw these deep state Rat Ba$tards so sick of their whining & bitching because there’s a real President in town!


21 posted on 06/29/2020 6:24:28 PM PDT by GeorgeWashington1777
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To: God luvs America

Proof right there he’s a POS POSing as a “journalist”


22 posted on 06/29/2020 6:27:16 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See St George's Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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To: SeekAndFind

China is very worried that Trump will pull Russia away from China’s hegemony. Very worried.

So US media must create whatever narrative will hinder that.
China must rule! US media profits demand it!


23 posted on 06/29/2020 6:27:35 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The President’s phone calls should make many U.S. officials nervous. He might be calling his stalwarts to rally and march, displacing the deep state permanently. Mr. President, my neighbors and I are packed and ready. We await your call.


24 posted on 06/29/2020 6:29:32 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Gay State Conservative

He’s like Nolan Ryan. Effectively wild.


25 posted on 06/29/2020 6:29:40 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The lying sack of partisan **** Bernstein regurg's the DNC talking point, gets a gold star.

Partisan Media Shills update.


26 posted on 06/29/2020 6:31:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Aholes that Trump should never have appointed leaking classified info.

This was Trump’s failure, personnel selection.


27 posted on 06/29/2020 6:31:50 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: SeekAndFind

So Bernstein went to disgruntled former employees who already turned on Trump and figured he could make more hay by collecting them together, wringing more bitching out of them and presenting it as a fresh news scoop?


28 posted on 06/29/2020 6:32:05 PM PDT by Floratina
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To: SeekAndFind

For a second there I thought it was by someone of importance, not a Marxist State Media pimp.


29 posted on 06/29/2020 6:32:22 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: SeekAndFind

RE:RE: If it is on CNN then a 99% chance it is a lie.

RE:Isn’t Carl Bernstein of WaterGate fame supposed to be the “gold standard” ( note the quotes ) for investigative journalism?

No he’s not, at least not to people who actually pay attention and get news and comment from independent sources rather than the fake news media. And you’re a plant. A marxist democrat coming to a conservative site to try to sow discord.


30 posted on 06/29/2020 6:36:59 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: LongWayHome

So Bernstein would have Trump take the word of some intelligence analyst, unvetted and unverified. One of the finest examples of such stupidity involved us in the second Iraq War, where some liar to gain favor wiht the Cheneys and Bernsteins of this world, made up the story that agents of Saddam Hussein had met with the 9/11 terrorists in Prague. Made no sense, not a word of truth in it, but it was used to lure us into America’s craziest war, which cost us thousands of our best, maimed physically and mentally countless others, cost trillions of dollars, and when the US largely left, we had a 2 percent approval rating among the Iraqi people for this mess. THAT is the product of unverified, unvetted intelligence that gets us into needless wars. Just because it makes some unelected, overpaid bureaucrat angry shouldn’t factor in the equation.


31 posted on 06/29/2020 6:37:35 PM PDT by laconic
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To: SeekAndFind

Revelation 3:9.


32 posted on 06/29/2020 6:39:05 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: SeekAndFind
CNNLIESbig-Sign
33 posted on 06/29/2020 6:39:35 PM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
fakenews2-vi
34 posted on 06/29/2020 6:40:37 PM PDT by timestax
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To: fatman6502002

RE: And you’re a plant. A marxist democrat coming to a conservative site to try to sow discord.

Actually,you are one of those FReepers who only prefer articles that are “safe” for your mindset. You just want to limit articles to conservative sites. Why not tell the mods to ban CNN at FR while you’re at it...


35 posted on 06/29/2020 6:42:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This left-wing sack of crap Bernstein can be beaten by a BLM....Burn, Loot, Murder crowd for all I care.


36 posted on 06/29/2020 6:42:49 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: SeekAndFind
...as two sources put it...
Riiiiight! Two unnamed sources.
37 posted on 06/29/2020 6:43:10 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SeekAndFind
In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state

Why does Bernstein have access to highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state?

38 posted on 06/29/2020 6:48:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Gahanna Bob; SeekAndFind; Wuli; nhbob1
In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state

Amazing how the "Worse Than Watergate!" geriatric pimple Bernstein is privy to "hundreds of highly classified phone calls"...

39 posted on 06/29/2020 6:56:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Carl,
Eat Shit, vomit and repeat.
Your douchebag opinion is not welcome to my eyes or ears.
You are on CNN because you are a loser.


40 posted on 06/29/2020 7:05:04 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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